Improvement in combined lock and handle for traveling-bags



wpnozmh. v COMI BINED LOCKAND HANIJLE'FOR TRAVELING-BAGS.

.No. 195,233.- Pajentd Sept. 18,1877-.

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WILLIAM ROEMER, 0F NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 195,233, datedSeptember 18, 1877 application filed August 10, 1877.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM ROEMER, ofNewark, in the county of Essex and State of New J ersey, have invented aCombined Lock and Handle Holder for Traveling-Bags, 8210., of which thefollowing is a specification:

Figure l is a top'view of my improved combined lock and handle holder.Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section of the same Fig. 3, across-section on the line 0 c, Fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures.

This invention relates to a new construction of lock-case fortraveling-bags, satchels, and the like, whereby the same is made toretain the rings which connect with the handle, to dispense with anextended bottom plate, and yet to leave said rings movable in theirbearlngs.

The invention consists in forming notches in the sides, near the ends ofthe lock-case, which notches engage over the lower parts of thehandle-rings, all as hereinafter more fully described.

In the accompanying drawing, the letter A represents the lock-case, thesame being of suitable construction, shape, and size, and adapted to befastened to the frame of the satchel or bag by rivets or other suitableto retain the handle-rings B B in place. Thesehandle-rings are, asindicated in Fig. 3, preferably flattened at their lower parts, and are,with these flattened portions, placed under the hooks b of thelock-case, and thereby secured to the satchel-frame, to which thelockcase is riveted, as already described. In these hooks, however, therings are free to vibrate, and free, therefore, to move with thehandles, and the rings constitute, in consequence, a flexible connectionbetween the handle and the bag or satchel.

By making the notches in the sides, the top of the lock-case remainssmooth and offers no obstruction to the free movement of handle andrings.

I claim The lock-case made with the notched sides a a near its ends .toreceive and hold the handle-rings B, substantially as herein shown anddescribed.

WILLIAM ROEM'ER.

Witnesses:

ERNEST O. WEBB, F. v. BRIESEN.

